Well sir, since summer started I've been working on a VERY highly detailed model of an Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer in Google Sketchup. I mean VERY, VERY detailed. She's at a 1:1 ratio, meaning she's almost exactly 1600 meters long.

I've been going into intense detail along the hull, studying from several reference pictures from around the interwebs.

Now, a while ago I was working on a model and someone on here asked if Sketchup had ambient occlusion. The answer was no. However, I recently discovered Kerkythea, which is a renderer that can access and render models from Sketchup. Needless to say I've churned out several dozen renders of the model as it currently is in order to get familiar with the tool, and the following pictures are some of the prettier results…

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0002.png/

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0004.png/

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0006.png/

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0010.png/

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0011.png/

http://img405.imageshack.us/f/sdrender0012.png/

Now, they're not professional level or anything, but they show just how much I've been throwing into this project (No, it is not textured besides all being coloured a light gray).

Now, some of you may have noticed that it's in half. Well, after an additional gig of RAM and a new video card, simply opening this model takes about a minute or two, and working on it produces a framerate around 10 FPS. I'm quite poor right now so I can't really afford a better computer/a tech upgrade.

Anyway, it's been about a month since I started, and I estimate another month or so before completion. So, that's all, folks!

-Darthvender